''Toute la mémoire du monde'' (English: All the Memory in the World) is a documentary short film by
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included ...
released in 1956.
Synopsis
An essay on the potential and limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Collaborators
*Gérard Willemetz
*Pierre Goupil
*Anne Sarraute
*Roger Fleytoux
*Claude Joudioux
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Jean Cayrol
Jean Cayrol (; 6 June 1911 – 10 February 2005) was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt born in Bordeaux. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary film, ''Night and Fog''. H ...
*André Goeffers
*Jean-Charles Lauthe
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Chris Marker (as Chris and Magic Marker)
*Dominique Raoul-Duval
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Chester Gould
Chester Gould (; November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the '' Dick Tracy'' comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
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*Denise York
*Benigne Caceres
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Agnès Varda
*Monique Le Porrier
*Paulette Borker
*André Heinrich
*Madame Searle
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Lee Falk
Lee Falk (), born Leon Harrison Gross (; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips '' Mandrake the Magician'' and ''The Phantom''. At th ...
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Phil Davis
*Marie-Claire Pasquier
*Robert Rendigal
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François-Régis Bastide
*Giulietta Caputo
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Joseph Rovan
Joseph Adolphe Rovan (born Joseph Adolph Rosenthal in Munich, Germany on July 25, 1918, died July 27, 2004), was a French philosopher and politician, and is considered a spiritual father of post-war Europe. Initially born into the Jewish faith, on ...
*Claudine Merlin
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1956 films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Alain Resnais
1950s short documentary films
French short documentary films
1956 documentary films
1950s French-language films
1950s French films
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